Canada ploughs Can$100 million into global AIDS efforts:

The Canadian government has committed Can$100m (US$72m) over two years to the global initiative to increase access to HIV/AIDS treatment in the developing world. The so-called "3 by 5" programme, led by the World Health Organization, aims to treat three million people living with AIDS by the end of 2005 and has important diagnostic and therapy monitoring components. There are some 34-46 million people infected with HIV worldwide. Only around 400,000, out of an estimated six million people in the developing world, have access to the antiretroviral therapy they need to survive. Every year, around three million people die for lack of such treatment.